STRUCTURAL, LOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT АННОТИРОВАНИЕ И РЕФЕРИРОВАНИЕ ИНОЯЗЫЧНЫХ ТЕКСТОВ
TERMINOLOGY SYNOPSIS [si'nopsis]- a short description of the main events or ideas in a book, film, text etc; - a statement in which facts or ideas are summarized Analogous words: summary • outline • overview • rundown • precis ['preisi] SUMMARY - a short statement that gives the main information about something, without giving all the details TO SUMMARISE - to make a short statement giving only the main information and not the details of a plan, event, report etc TO SUM UP
ТЕРМИНОЛОГИЯ РЕФЕРИРОВАНИЕ - вид речевой деятельности, заключающийся в извлечении из прочитанного текста основного содержания и заданной информации с целью их письменного изложения. АННОТИРОВАНИЕ – создание краткой характеристики текста с точки зрения содержания, формы, читательского назначения и других особенностей, дополняющих библиографическое описание.
ANALITICAL STAGE: ANALYSING THE AUTHOR’S TEXT Text analysis is based on various types of reading and decoding information given in the author’s text and creating a new compressed version of the text. Analysing the content: Looking for and extracting key information Using the mechanism of compression for creating a new text
ACQUIRING THE SKILLS OF TEXT ANALYSIS MASTERING THE CONTENT AND LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT Skimming the text and understanding the main idea: eg. choosing the best title (Практикум, pp. 6-7) Analysing each paragraph of the text: finding the key idea / the topic sentence (Практикум, pp. 8-9; pp. 13-14 )
COMPRESSING THE TEXT
PRODUCTION STAGE: MAKING UP A SYNOPSIS ALGORITHM OF ACTIVITY Preparatory actions: Giving general information about the article / text (author, type of publication, reference) Formulating the topical area, the problem and the main idea of the article / text Analysing the structure of the article / text Making reference to the author’s point of view Expressing your own opinion
LANGUAGE FORM The text to be discussed is entitled «…» The problem tackled upon in the text refers to the area of … The main idea conveyed by the author is that … Structurally the text falls into … parts. In the first part the author focuses on … The second part deals with the description/analysis of … In the third part the author dwells on … According to the author … / From the author’s point of view … / In the author’s opinion … The article suggests that … / The author arrives at the following conclusions. (Реферирование, pp. 34-38
SUMMARY REQUIREMENTS Formal Impersonal Long complex sentences Very concise (compressed) Less analytical STRUCTURE Introduction (1 sentence) Main body (1 sentence for each paragraph) Conclusion (1 sentence)